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Yes. I first tried it with Rook, and that was a disaster, so I shifted to Longhorn. That has had its own share of problems, and is quite slow. Finally, I let Proxmox manage Ceph for me, and it’s been a dream. So far I haven’t migrated my K8s workloads to it, but I’ve used it for RDBMS storage (DBs in VMs), and it works flawlessly.

I don’t have an incredibly great setup, either: 3x Dell R620s (Ivy Bridge-era Xeons), and 1GBe. Proxmox’s corosync has a dedicated switch, but that’s about it. The disks are nice to be fair - Samsung PM863 3.84 TB NVMe. They are absolutely bottlenecked by the LAN at the moment.

I plan on upgrading to 10GBe as soon as I can convince myself to pay for an L3 10G switch.




Just get a 25G switch and MM fiber. 25G switches are cheaper, use less power and can work with 10 and 25G SFPs.


The main blocker (other than needing to buy new NICs, since everything I have already came with quad 1/1/10/10) is I'm heavily invested into the Ubiquiti ecosystem, and since they killed off the USW-Leaf (and the even more brief UDC-Leaf), they don't have anything that fits the bill.

I'm not entirely opposed to getting a Mikrotik or something and it just being the oddball out, but it's nice to have everything centrally managed.

EDIT: They do have the PRO-Aggregation, but there are only 4x 25G ports. Technically it _would_ meet my needs for Ceph, and Ceph only.




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